The largest dam removal project is moving forward on the Klamath River in California and Oregon. Tribal nations there have fought for decades to protect native fish runs and the ecology of the river.

The idea that human activity threatens nature, and that it is important to protect wild places, dates back to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.

Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says he will end land clearance in Brazil’s Amazon region. But powerful forces profit from rainforest destruction.

Parks and refuges are important for conservation, but without connections, they’re like islands. Linking them by protecting land in between makes it possible for wildlife to move over bigger areas.

Indigenous people in rural Borneo associate the coronavirus with modern life, not their traditional hunting.

US ideas about conservation center on walling off land from use. That approach often means expelling Indigenous and other poor people who may be its most effective caretakers.

Scientists find inequality between humans also harms the birds, the bees, the microbes and the trees.

The lockdown may be a greater worry than the disease itself.